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If its not one thing...its another. Perhaps you should consider a Greyhound Bus. The back seatsare a great place to get acquainted... Or at least it was years ago when I rode one from Texas in the middle of the night. That youngman with the luscious lips from California was so...........NICE.

That newscast is from my city of Albuquerque, NM. I remember when it came out (no pun intended) IT was a riot! The sad part is that the newscaster who made the slip, is actually pretty good. I know her a little bit, and she is sincere about being good at her job. Little slips like this though are unavoidable from time to time.

What a pity Freud isn't among us any longer to help answer that unconscious ""but...he's gay!"" remark! I actually thought that it was kind of funny, though, and thought also that the broadcast might have come from a gay-friendly city in the U.S.!

For all intents and purposes, Albuquerque is pretty gay friendly. It's pretty safe here, if there is such a thing. The community is active and visible, and for the most part the politicians here are gay friendly. Although truth be told I want to leave this city in the spring, it has nothing to do with the quality of gay life here. Its more that I'm ready and desperate to live in a town so small, that it doesn't even have a traffic light. Cities wear me out.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Thanks, Carousel, for sharing this! I admire the will power of these folks, and the group unity showed throughout the climbing of the mountain. The video also gave me an idea: "Organize a ski trip to the Alps!"

ROFL, nothing like being blind and outed by a news caster. Here I thought I told everyone. That one has my disclosure beat all to hell. (I wonder how far he spit his coffee when he heard her say that?)